Sunday night, after a long weekend skiing with the bros from my office (my knuckles were sore from so must fist-bumping), it was good to get back in my element for a night of garage/experimental pop at the Paradise. I am excited to say that this is the first concert I’ve been to where I’ve [...]
November 14th, 2011 (review by Emily) It was a shadowy beach party at Landsdowne Pub last night as Surfer Blood played, courtesy of radio station WFNX. The free show brought in an assortment of hipsters and radio listeners; this was not my typical Monday night music scene. Budweiser girls were passing out T-shirts and people [...]
All our heroes will die. The Paradise rock club was packed on Wednesday night–the most crowded I’ve ever seen it. I’ve been to sold-out shows there before, but the scrawny hipsters who normallypopulate the crowd take up a lot less room without the sagging paunches accumulated over twenty extra years. Receding hairlines complimented with sagging [...]
“Don’t despair. Don’t you dare.” About 45 minutes into his set in Cambridge last night, I realized that I had outgrown David Bazan. Philosophically, I’ve more-or-less moved past the adolescent struggles I had with God and religion, the struggles which Bazan writes about almost exclusively. His songs have always been interesting to the extent that [...]